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...Tables holding data from relational DBMS are an easy case: this class should preserve the original data as much as possible, i.e., no coercing into factors, no changing column names, no row names, but otherwise very similar to data.frames. (Timothy Keitt has a more interesting concept of "proxyTables" that presents some very interesting issues: should proxyTables, which "point" to remote relations in dbms, allow integer indexing? --- the relational database model does not support it) Is there something common to all these objects? Obviously they all support indexing x[i...

I've been putting together a package that defined generic methods for database access. The packages is called "Rdbi." It borrows as much as possible from existing database packages / proposals. I'd like to start a discussion about the proposed interface. Here's what I've come up with so far: # # Rdbi: connectionMethods.R # dbConnect <- function(dbObj, ...)